German and Spanish (Dual Languages)

What you'll study

In each year, you’ll undertake two core language modules in each of your chosen languages, at either beginners/improvers or advanced level. You’ll also study two optional modules, covering topics such as culture, history and society, translation, TESOL, linguistics and independent research skills.

First year

* Modules are subject to availability

Core modules

German Language 1 – Beginners and Improvers

German Language 1 – Advanced

German Language 2 – Beginners and Improvers

German Language 2 – Advanced

Spanish Language 1 – Beginners and Improvers

Spanish Language 1 – Advanced

Spanish Language 2 – Beginners and Improvers

Spanish Language 2 – Advanced

Optional modules

Spotlight on Language

Skills for Communicating Cultures

Ideas and Identities

Passport Languages

Second year

* Modules are subject to availability

Core modules

German Language 3

German Language 4

Spanish Language 3

Spanish Language 4

Optional modules

Presenting and Representing the Past

Contemporary Cities: Migration, Place and Belonging

Understanding Languages in Context

Languages Guided Research Project

Introduction to Language Teaching

Language and the Mind

Trinity CertTESOL 1

Translation and Digital Culture

Passport Languages

Year abroad

* Modules are subject to availability

In the third year, you'll enhance your language skills further and gain real world experience living, and either working or studying abroad in the countries your languages are spoken.

More about this course

Explore two linguistic and cultural worlds by combining German and Spanish. Alongside the language and linguistics, you’ll study topics such as the culture, history and society of the countries speaking your two languages. You’ll experience living and either working or studying in the different countries in Year 3. As a result, your high-level language and intercultural skills are essential in a global job market after graduation.

Hull offers excellent language learning facilities, with a dedicated space for languages students. Our team of Language Learning Advisors offer extra one-to-one support to help you with your studies, as well as a partnership scheme which allows you to practise your chosen languages with native speakers. While studying for your degree, you have the opportunity to gain a recognised teaching qualification in Trinity CertTESOL (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). If you don’t have the qualifications to enter the programme directly, we offer a foundation year to prepare you for degree-level study.

Applicants should have an A level in a foreign language at Grade C or above.

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Alternative qualifications

IB Diploma: 28 points

Access to HE Diploma: Pass with 45 credits at merit

We welcome applicants with a range of qualifications from the UK and worldwide which may not exactly match the combinations shown above. Please contact the University’s Admissions Service for individual guidance.

At a glance

For this course, you'll need...

112 UCAS points

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We welcome a range of qualifications from the UK and worldwide which may not be listed.

Many of our courses offer a Foundation Year for applicants without the qualifications for direct entry on to the degree.

Future Prospects

Graduates in languages have the highest employability rates of all humanities graduates, and graduates of the University of Hull have a very good record of ﬁnding employment after graduation. With competence in three or more languages, you will be well equipped for a range of careers including translation and interpreting, journalism, teaching, the service industries and the commercial sector.

Hull graduates are rated highly by employers and are to be found in both the public and the private sector: They are civil servants, diplomats, teachers, bankers, journalists, industrialists, and members of the police force and the armed services.

A few examples of careers chosen by recent graduates show the range of opportunities: international customer liaison at Harrod’s; business analyst; United Biscuits; Customs and Excise executive office; English teaching assistant in Japan; lecturers teaching English at universities in Dijon and Reims, and at the Sorbonne in Paris; translator, Netherlands National Press Bureau; International Officer at Lloyds Bank, Intelligence Officer with RAF.